Neither believer nor infidel : skepticism and faith in Melville's shorter fiction and poetry /
"The first full-length study to explore the relationship between religious doubt and faith in a broad selection of Herman Melville's short stories, novellas, and poetry"-
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, New York :
Northern Illionois University, Press, Cornell University Press,
2023.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv2wn4c0r |
Table of Contents:
- Neither believer nor infidel: biographical considerations
- Biblical inversion and the ends of Christianity: "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
- Conversion, infatuation, resurrection: Christian salvation in "Cock-a-Doodle-Do!"
- The genealogy of Melville's female Job: Griselda, "Wakefield," Agatha, Hunilla
- Revolutionary skepticism in Israel Potter: the role of Ecclesiastes
- Memorializing the dead in Battle-Pieces: Christian and classical motifs
- "Are ye gods?" Interrogating the divine in Timoleon, etc.
- Legends of the fall: Genesis, Paradise Lost, Schopenhauer, Billy Budd.